Take it from the top
LIFE COACH
Laura Fountain is a running coach, a personal trainer, a marathon runner and the author of The Lazy Runner and Tricurious. She is running a new Marathon Squad for spring: lazygirlrunning.com/marathon-squad Follow Laura @lazygirlrunning
Turning up for the first week of running group is a nerve-wracking experience – for both runner and coach. It’s like a blind date; the relationship between coach and runner may not be headed in the same direction as a successful date, but it’s still important that we get along. And, at an absolute minimum, I hope they turn up! So there I am ticking off my list of names…